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Slavery and empire in Central Asia
- Title
- Slavery and empire in Central Asia / Jeff Eden.
- Author
- Eden, Jeff
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- viii, 227 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central Asia's relations with Russia, England, and Iran, and would serve as a major justification for the Russian conquest of this region in the 1860s-70s. Challenging the consensus that the Russian Empire abolished slavery with these conquests, Eden uses these documents to reveal that it was the slaves themselves who brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region's history.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The setting: Russia, Iran, and the slaves of the Khanates -- Beyond the bazaars: geographies of the slave trade in Central Asia -- From despair to liberation: Mirza Mahmud Taq Ashtiyan's ten years of slavery -- The slaves' world: jobs, roles and families -- From slaves to serfs: manumission along the Kazakh frontier -- The Khan as Russian agent: native informants and abolition -- The conquest of Khiva and the myth of Russian abolitionism in Central Asia.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8506
- ISBN
- 9781108470513
- 1108470513
- LCCN
- 2018021674
- 40028478241
- OCLC
- 1019998797
- Author
- Eden, Jeff, author.
- Title
- Slavery and empire in Central Asia / Jeff Eden.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationCambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108666251
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028478241
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8506